Andrew Back
Andrew Back joined BT in June 2005 and has been working with Free Software since 1995. He currently holds the position of Open Source Strategist with BT's open source innovation unit, Osmosoft. During his tenure at BT he has been responsible for driving strategy for the effective adoption of open source technology and principles across all lines of business, the development of open source governance practice and the creation of BT Design's Open Source Focus Group. He represents BT at the Linux Foundation FOSSBazaar work group, is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and is a Chartered Member of the British Computer Society.
Brad Reeves
Linux. KDE. Open Source. Refuses to own an iPod. Drives a Mini Cooper. Brad's a Senior Content Engineer at OpenLogic but get this: he's also been a ski patrol guy, basketball coach, line cook, and trainer at HP (for starters). Brad has earned his guru status, and - if you want something done? Folks actually refer to him as the "office do-er of everything". Cooks veggies in all manner of delicious ways, but eats only meat. Able to benchpress any given 17 year old. This guy? Totally deserves the superman logo and if it weren't for that pesky copyright, we'd give it to him. In color.
Brad Swanson
Brad Swanson is Founder and Principal Consultant of Propero Solutions. He is a veteran of the software industry with 15 years of experience in executive management, project and program leadership, product management, and software development in both start-ups and large companies. He has led successful agile projects with teams distributed between the US, India, and China. He was an early adopter of agile methodologies, starting with eXtreme Programming as a developer in 1999. Brad is a Certified Scrum Coach, Certified Scrum Master and an active member of the agile software community. In addition to his deep experience with agile methodology, Brad has a long history with software process improvement initiatives. He organized a successful ISO 9001 audit for a 2000-person engineering organization and has led CMM assessments.
Christian Einfeldt
Christian Einfeldt is an attorney in civil practice in San Francisco who has been using GNU-Linux in his practice since 2001. He provides volunteer sys admin support with Free Open Source Software for schools in San Francisco, California. He is also producing a documentary called the "Digital Tipping Point" about how FOSS is reinventing culture, much like the printing press did in its day.
Content Team
The content team. Where to begin? On three continents, we write metadata, research licenses, create custom builds, handle certifications and implementations before lunch, and without whining. We organize and edit all the nifty, informative articles on Wazi, too. Between us we own one horse, 10 dogs, 3 cats, a coupla geckos and just under a half-dozen fish. None of them are allowed in the conference room while we're busy maintaining the edge that is OLEX Open Source Content Development.
Dave McLoughlin
Dave's kind of an all-around type of person. His life is full. This is Dave: he was drafted into OpenLogic in December 2006 and as of this moment he's handling technical sales, product manager of content for the OpenLogic Certified Library, and Managing the OpenLogic Expert Community. Yes, that last role is all caps, and we mean it. We're on pins & needles waiting to see what he'll take on next. Did we mention that he plays the trumpet (and the flugelhorn)? Very well, in fact, and regularly. With a symphony. What a guy!
Devon Jones
Despite the fact that Devon is a native Coloradan, he currently codes in the Big Apple where he's a Software Architect. A mountain climber with no mountains (Skyscrapers aren't quite the same...and are off-limits, turns out. Long story.), Devon soothes himself with extra hours at Knewton Inc, an educational software start-up, hacking with his homies over at NYC Resistor, talking to anyone who will listen about the sense and sensibility of using open source licenses for more than just software, and doing his part for digital freedom.
Dru Lavigne
Dru is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, and technical author. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics. She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Open Source Business Resource, a free monthly publication covering open source and the commercialization of open source assets. An intrepid globetrotter, her current experiments include mapping out which airports in the world provide free wireless and looking for eclectic combinations of cuisine.
Eric Weidner
Eric Weidner is Senior Development Manager and Co-Founder of OpenLogic. On any given day, you might find him in the server closet re-configuring switches or leading a content team meeting with his trademark laid back style. (We like to call him "Thorazine".) Trained as a mechanical engineer, Eric began his career as a product design engineer and project manager with a small engineering consulting firm where he pioneered the use of emerging web technologies to improve communications with both clients and team members during the project life cycle. He had so much fun that he left CAD systems behind and jumped fulltime into Java and J2EE development. These days, he grooves on the myriad ways that Open Source projects (and people) can be made to play nicely together. If you're ever skiing in Colorado, Eric may be the guy sliding by, on his back, as he works to integrate himself onto Project Snowboard.
Ernest Park
Ernie Park is a senior technology professional specializing in information about free and open source software, license and software usage and proliferation, and the creation and management of FOSS usage policy. He has delivered significant innovations specific to the use and identification of FOSS within enterprise environments, and he is also an advocate for the development and maintenance of policies for the use of FOSS. Currently employed as an independent consultant specializing in software risk management, Ernie is also an active writer and contributor to thought leadership within the FOSS community. His writing can be found on sites including FOSSBazaar, The Open Source blog, and the GPL3 blog.
Francisco Reyes
Francisco is a long time open source user living in NYC. He works as a database and system administrator using a variety of open source operating systems and programs.
Freddy Andersen
Freddy supports OpenLogic customers from his home in California. Born in Norway, Freddy has been working in open source for almost 10 years. He drives a Ferrari truck when he isn't running (either for exercise or chasing Cade, his two-year-old, or simply because he's had too much Red Bull).
Glen Bettridge
Raised by a sasquatch tribe in the mountainous wilds of the western United States, Glen learned programming at the knee of his adopted father Grr'ktch. He is now a great fan of scrumilicious methodologies.
Grant Smith
Grant started writing software at the age of 12 when his father assembled a Sinclair ZX-81 in kit form, and he's been hooked on technology ever since. His experience with software development is as deep as it is unique -- he's been a programmer in the South African Army, IT manager at a merchant bank, VP of IT at a construction and property administration company, and he's an active committer to the Apache community of open source software projects. Grant currently resides in Oregon where he enjoys cycling, racquetball, geocaching, coaching and playing soccer, and spending time with his lovely wife and children.
Jeremy Whitlock
Jeremy is a long time Mac user, open source advocate and contributor, and father of two boys.
Joe Backo
Joe Backo is a long-time denizen of the computer business, having started his journey in 1983 at Xerox PARC. Along the way he's worked with Sun, Netscape, Inktomi, and a few other cutting edge companies. His interest has always been in adherence to open standards, so you won't see Microsoft on his resume. His involvement with open source projects goes back to the mid-1980's when we was building X11 R2 from the MIT source. His passion for projects of this sort is quite deep, and he's interested in many technology areas today as a result.
Kelby Zorgdrager
Kelby Zorgdrager, President of DevelopIntelligence, is a serial entrepreneur who has started three successful businesses in his career. Much of his career has been focused on leveraging technologies to create robust, scalable, and extensible solutions. Kelby has held just about every position possible in the technology world, from tech support to CTO. Kelby's expertise in Java and software development allowed him to be a guest speaker at JavaOne, Java University, Comdex, IEEE Software Conference, and the Colorado Software Summit. Kelby has been a guest author for both IBM and Sun, and he served as a technical editor for the best-selling book, Advanced Java: How to Program. Recently, Kelby has been applying his vast understanding of technology through the delivery of educational and software development consulting services to small and medium sized businesses.
Kimberly McClintock
Kimberly is absolutely fabulous, in every way. Before striking out on her own to pursue a career in writing, she led the technical writing team at OpenLogic that's responsible for all technical content on the OLEX site, as well as the the selection, editing, coordination, and management of content here at Wazi. She's developed content for lots of different audiences - teachers and students and salespeople, to name a few - over the course of her career, but nothing's been as much fun as writing about Open Source. She's a heckuva cook, has an enormously varied vocabulary, and you might justifiably be fearful of her dog, a big girl named Lola.
Landon Cox
Landon has long been a champion of our missions and a favorite here at OpenLogic and we're thrilled to have him contributing his insight and brilliance here on Wazi. See a picture of his twenty-year old oscilloscope here: http://sawdust.see-do.org.
Mark Radcliffe
Mark earned a B.S. in Chemistry magna cum laude from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He's been practicing law in Silicon Valley for over 25 years and is currently a senior partner at DLA Piper, a new global law firm formed in 2005 from the merger of three law firms. The firm now has 3600 lawyers in 25 countries and 65 cities. Mark's practice is a mix of corporate securities and intellectual property, and he works with many startups as well as large global companies. He's enjoyed the opportunity to work with companies in many industries, ranging from semiconductor to digital media to open source. Mark is the General Counsel, pro bono, of the Open Source Initiative and ran the "users" committee reviewing the GPLv3 draft.
Mert
Mert Caliskan is a software architect working for STM A.S., a defense contractor located in Turkey. He worked several years on various Enterprise Java Projects mostly built upon open source frameworks. He is a founder & committer of open-source projects like PrimeFaces, mesir, YUI4JSF, JSFExcelCreator, HibernateTrace and a contributor of Apache MyFaces. He is a sun certified java professional and javablackbelt contest winner. He gives speeches at local and international conferences about OSS frameworks and tries to leverage the use of them.
Ragavan Srinivasan
Ragavan Srinivasan works as Open Source Program Manager at VMware. He's interested in building a vibrant community of users and developers around VMware’s open source projects. Prior to joining VMware, Ragavan created and helped launch FOSSBazaar while leading several initiatives for Hewlett-Packard’s Open Source Program Office. As one of the founders of the Kids on Computers project, he is working to set up a computer lab for an elementary school in Mexico, running Linux of course.
Rod Cope
Rod is the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic. He's been in open source since, well - since before it was even called open source. With 20 years experience developing enterprise software solutions, Rod has provided technical leadership on significant projects for companies such as GE, IBM, Anthem, Ericsson, Ford, Goodyear, Integral, CourseNet, and Digital Thoughts. He's a Sun Certified Java Architect and has won the JavaOne Conference Rock Star award not once, not twice - but three times. He presents at conferences around the world including the Open Source Business Conference, OSCON and others. You may have guessed that Rod works a lot, and you'd be right - but when he's not working, you might find him hiking in Telluride with his wife Neeta, Misha the giant beagle, and a Vizsla named Bowie.
Sandro Groganz
The founder of InitMarketing, Sandro Groganz is an acknowledged expert in the field of Open Source marketing. Formerly VP of marketing at Mindquarry (an Open Source startup financed by Hasso Plattner Ventures) and VP communication at eZ Systems (the creator of the Open Source content management system eZ Publish), Sandro also has a solid background as a PHP developer, consultant and author contributing to a number of books on LAMP programming. He maintains a blog over at http://sandro.groganz.com and you can reach him via Twitter as @ordnas.
Security Team
We'll keep you safe. Trust us, that's our job. Even though, contrary to what our Avatar might imply, we're not all linebackers. In fact, some of us are quite petite. And others of us wear high heeled boots. Red. Wondering whether we also know what we're talking about? C'mon -have you read any of these security posts?
Seth Bindernagel
As Director of the Localization Team at Mozilla Corporation, Seth focuses on expanding Mozilla’s impact on the web by helping localizers translate Mozilla into an ever-growing number of languages. A graduate of Cornell University, he also earned an MBA at UC Berkeley, where he focused on socially responsible business and took leadership roles in the Berkeley Net Impact Club and the Global Social Venture Competition. Seth previously worked at Davidson Capital Group and Ashoka, a global nonprofit organization that focuses on advancing the field of social entrepreneurship. He spends his spare time swimming, playing baseball and tennis, and going to live concerts.
Stormy Peters
Stormy is Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation and a passionate evangelist for open source software. She founded the Open Source Program Office at Hewlett-Packard and the Expert Community at OpenLogic, and she’s a frequent keynote speaker on business aspects of open source software at prominent conferences as well as for government organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union. Stormy has lived north of the Arctic Circle, traveled around the world solo, and—most impressively—taught classes to twenty-two eight year olds. She currently spends her spare time working with Kids on Computers, where she's helping to set up a computer lab in Mexico (using open source software, of course).
Technical Support Team
Needs fixin'? We'll fix it. Not getting it? We get it. Worried? Don't be, we're here for you. Also, we're nice, and we speak in intelligible sentences and we really, really will try to avoid sarcasm. We know about lots and lots of really cool stuff; and if we don't know it we'll figure it out in no time flat. If you wanted to call us by name you'd say, "Um, Dave?"
Veljko Krunic
Not only did Veljko emigrate to the US from Serbia, his idea of fun involves some fairly extreme environments: he's happiest gliding about at high altitude (through the clouds, we mean, in a teeny tiny lightweight glider plane, while the rest of us clutch at our parachutes and gape through the window of the tow-plane) or flippering through the ocean depths dependent on canned air (scuba). We know he's intrepid. So, that's two things, 'cause we also know he's smart. He's working away at a Ph.D in CS from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he's already gained his BS and MS in the same field. Veljko can be reached at veljko.krunic at openlogic dot com.